@bbrass You should not have pain as you taper down. You are at the point where your adrenal glands are waking up and it is easy to confuse PMR pain with the pain from adrenal glands not kicking in and getting back to work. This is where your taper needs to be slow. Once you are pain free at 5mg, possibly plan to stay there for 30 days, then drop to 4mg for 30 days, etc. Remember that dropping from 5 to 4 is a 20% drop - which is a big difference at the lower doses. At 10 mg a 1 mg drop is only 10%. I would advise not to rush it. I know you want off steroids but at 5mg and below that is a very small dose.
There is a national shortage of Rheumy's so finding one who is accepting new patients can be difficult. I live in the Dallas area and it is not easy even in this large of a market.